ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC22 - Week 33

Welcome to Week 33 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week was a mixed bag.  Was ORANGE sewing involved?  Stayed tuned, as the days unfold.

SUNDAY - Today's ARTventure with @britt_quilts was AMAZING...

Here we are, trading a sample of the day's fun.

... But I'm getting ahead of myself because the day began, as most Sundays do, with my weekly Zoom call with Knittingsuek:

What about the ARTventure, Joyful???

Gelli printing was what Britt and I were doing all afternoon.  I'm looking forward to seeing how I might incorporate some of these into my art journals:

MONDAY - Monday meant work.  At least, it was supposed to!  Here's what I did instead...

I took a load of stuff to "The Will of Good" and later attended this month's Quilt Guilt meeting:

Our guest speaker was Applique Designer @sandyfitzpatrick of Hissyfitz Designs and the photo below shows the BEST binding trick EVER:

TUESDAY - It was an art-y day where I used the first bit of the gelli prints from Sunday...

... And taped off a section of my layered abstract painting for the FREE class I'm taking with Judy Woods Art.  It looks a bit like a hot mess at the moment, but it's been interesting to explore her artistic process:

WEDNESDAY - Today was an errand and appointment day.  It started off with "Coffee and Collage" at Filament with Tracy and Hilary:

I used one of my layered gelli prints for this page in my Flowers Magic Challenge journal.  The event is over, but I continue to fill in the gaps with more floral fun:

LOOK!!!  I actually did a bit of ORANGE knitting... On the "spare" sock that Tracy brought just in case I wanted something to knit:

Later, I cleared this bulletin board...

... And headed off to a local thrift store, where I came thisclose to bringing home a sweet little ORANGE mug, but decided that I really didn't NEED it:

I got home just in time to Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color:

Afterwards, I threw in a load of laundry and then the mad scientist in me experimented with acrylic inks for the first time:

THURSDAY - Work.  On a day that I had hoped for it to be canceled....

I won at Wordle:

There was NO WAY in the world that I could have won this game of Quordle:

After work, I added the "florals" to my series of abstract paintings:

FRIDAY - Knit Group all but canceled today.  I met Tracy there for another episode of "Coffee and Collage", once again working in my #flowersmagicchallenge journal:

Later, I did a bit of ORANGE scrap quilting...

... Because the August 2022 TABLE SCRAPS Challenge will be here NEXT FRIDAY!!!

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  I'm pleased to have something quilty to share.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC22 - Week 32

Welcome to Week 32 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week went by in a blur of activity.  What are the odds that I did any scrappy ORANGE sewing?

Read on to find out...

SUNDAY - The week began with a Zoom call with Knittingsuek:

MONDAY - Errands and art-ing...

This was from my Abstract Patterns class with @mandyevansartist where I attempted to mix up neutrals with my watercolors:

TUESDAY - Chores and art-ing were on the day's agenda.  This azalea in my garden...

Became an excuse to play with my watercolors, again:

WEDNESDAY - Work?  Nope.  I got a text about a half hour before tome to leave.  This might bother some, but it doesn't phase me in the least!  In fact, I was pretty happy about it.  The extra studio time gave me the opportunity to make some long-neglected phone calls and also allowed me the time to determine how I wanted to interpret these Purple Coneflowers from my neighbor's garden:

Ultimately, I opted to use my Posca pens and paired them with a few of my Prismacolor pencils for some extra shading:

Later...

I touched fabric scraps!!!  (Don't anybody faint - or get too excited!)  I moved them from one end of the cutting table to the other!  :P

I moved the pieces just so I would have something "quilty" to add to my Zoom conversation with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color.  Here we are shown with me being (silly and) supportive by taking our photo while tipping over, as her iPad was refusing to switch to the portrait mode:

THURSDAY - Work... NOT!!!  :o))

What did I do instead???  I went shopping... Which is precisely why I work.  So I don't have time to shop!!!  :P

Before heading out, I (finally) remembered to decorate the gallery wire in ORANGE:

When I returned, I cut out the letter from the scrap I showed yesterday.  This will (eventually) be an ORANGE scrappy gift - which (unsurprisingly) just happens to be long overdue:

FRIDAY - This morning's Knit Group was a productive time for me.  (In a flash of brilliance) I decided to take a small amount of "collage fodder", a pair of scissors, and a glue stick with me so that I could get a start on a missed page in my Flowers Magic journal.  It was fun to hear the knitters' reactions:

Once home, I added marks and additional doodles in order to blend the artist papers with my own hand painted ones.  Here's the completed page:

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  Not much sewing related news here.

Last night this photo from my neighbor's garden...

Inspired me to do a loose drawing...

 With a touch of watercolor for a bit of color:

I'm having so much fun with paper and paint!  Have no fear, dear quilters, I will make my way back into the fabric stash.

Until next time...

Get SCRAPPY!!

ScrapHappy Saturday - RSC22 - Week 31

Welcome to Week 31 of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!!  This week got away from me and I didn't start my post until this morning.  Can you believe it?  The queen of the prepared post has fallen to a new low.  Sigh...

SUNDAY - Our hostess announced new Color of the Month in yesterday's post.  The RSC Quilters will be working with ORANGE in August.  Here are the fabric scraps that I have to work with... THREE cubbies from lightest peach to deep rust with some bright bits thrown in the mix:

My goal is to finish this special mug rug:

This is the last day of July.  The month is gone and I nearly missed commenting on my Blog-a-versary.  Whoops!  The Joyful Quilter blog turned 12 this year.  Thanks for reading!

MONDAY - Work was followed by ORANGE art inspired by today's lesson by @joanadornellaslab for the Flowers Magic Challenge:

Oil pastel on acrylic

TUESDAY - Errand day was followed by an art adventure.  To complete today's lesson for Mandy Evans' Abstract Patterns in Watercolour, a FREE Workshop Series, I painted a Swatch "Card" with my travel kit - purchased not to paint outdoors on-the-go, but for the small scale packaging, making it easy to store:

I very nearly finish this peachy-coral Mixed Media Inspirational Wall Art project from @shemidixon for the Paper Craft Summit:

WEDNESDAY - This rosebud in my garden...

Is memorialized in the loose, sketch-y painting shown below.  This is my very first watercolor work thanks to Michelle Schratz @raspberrybluesky's Flowers Magic Challenge lesson:

Today's Zoom with LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color produced this lovely photo FAIL:

But, hey! LeeAnna looks adorable and we both dressed with the RSC Color of the Month in mind!!  :o))

THURSDAY - Work - My computer seemed to have gotten this month's color cue:

Just LOOK at those sweet pinky-orange houses!

It was a good day for Wordle...

And Quordle, too:

Challenged by @franciscanunes_heartmakes, I brought out the watercolors to capture this rose from my garden...

To create this painting, which has since been cut apart to be included on two separate pages in my Flowers Magic journal:

And the purple flowers were inspired by this page in Michelle's journal:

I added a few paint splatters for a bit of fun.  Let me tell you... It's not as easy as it looks!

FRIDAY - Work was followed by some relaxation on the couch with a nice cup of tea, but after a while, I headed out into the garden to collect flower petals to create this Natural Color Palette:

I've got to say, I was a bit disappointed when my lovely ORANGE rose produced a pink shade as the petals were rubbed on the journal page.  :o((

SATURDAY - It's LINK PARTY day for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  I hope you will join me in visiting Angela @ So Scrappy to see what the RSC Quilters have been up to this week.  Maybe NEXT week there will be more ORANGE fabric scraps to see in my post.

Until then...

Get SCRAPPY!!